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Theatre Directing Workshop led by director Silviu Purcarete

04 July 2023

The "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre, through the "Ion Sava" Centre for Theatre Research and Creation, will organize a theatre directing workshop led by director Silviu Purcarete from September 15 to October 15, 2023.

The theme of the workshop will be a study/workshop on Scene II, Act I of William Shakespeare's Richard III.

The workshop is aimed at professional directors (theatre directing degree, bachelor or master degree).

There will be 5 directors participating in the workshop.

Conditions for participation:

Directors interested in participating in the workshop should send a project by August 20 to centrulsavatnb@gmail.com, which should include:

1. A directing concept for the play "Richard III" by William Shakespeare (maximum one page)

2. A concept for staging Scene II, Act I of William Shakespeare's Richard III (maximum one page)

3. An ideal cast for the two characters Lady Anne and Gloucester from NTB's list of employed actors.

The assignment shall be submitted in a Word document.

The selection process of the directors participating in the workshop:

The selection of the five directors who will participate in the workshop will be made by all the directors applying for the workshop, according to the following methodology:

- After centralizing the received works, the "Ion Sava" Centre for Theatre Research and Creation will send electronically to each candidate director all the submitted works. These works will be secret, in the sense that the name of the author of the work will not be known - each work will be identified by a number.

- Each candidate director will mark the five best works with a unique score from 1 to 5 (1 being the minimum score, 5 being the maximum score) (For example: work X - 1 point, work Y - 2 points, work Z - 5 points).

- The list of the 5 works will be sent by each applicant to centrulsavatnb@gmail.com by September 3rd.

- The "Ion Sava" Centre for Theatre Research and Creation will centralize these lists and send them to each candidate director.

- The authors of the works that obtain the first five highest scores (resulting from the sum of the points awarded by each candidate director) will be declared admitted to the workshop.

- The selected directors will be announced on September 7 this year.

The workshop's schedule and the working hours will be agreed upon by Mr Silviu Purcarete, the directors and the participating actors.

The workshop will take place in the NTB rehearsal spaces. The five directors admitted to the workshop will choose their own cast from a list of actors and actresses (NTB employees) that will be emailed to them after the results of the competition are announced. The list will include actors and actresses (NTB employees) who are willing and available to work in the workshop.

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

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